Utamaro: Colour Prints and Paintings Ronald P. DORE and the development of its

and the development of its museum collections

explaining why certain ideas persist despite lacking empirical support

Year:   1957

de la Oficina de Cultura y Turismo de la Comunidad de Madrid con motivo de la concesión del XIII Premio de Cultura

Utamaro: Colour Prints and Paintings Ronald P. DORE and the development of itsUtamaro is one of the most significant figures in the history of Japanese art, and one who has had an incalculable influence on Western artists. Born in 1753, he lived all his life in Edo, a central figure in a culture that was of the people rather than the aristocracy, and whose typical forms of expression were the Kabuki plays, light novelettes, comic verse and colour woodcuts. He spans a period during which each of these arts was brought to its